Pilot Observations of the XXL-S from ATCA

December 23, 2015

by Minh Huynh (UWA) The XXL team have observed two large areas of sky (25 square degrees each, or more than 100 times the area of the moon) in the […]

Welcome to Shi Dai !

December 22, 2015

Shi Dai got his PhD degree in astrophysics from Peking University in July 2015. He was co-supervised by George Hobbs at CASS from 2013 to 2015. His research interests are […]

2015: An ASKAP year to remember

December 21, 2015

by Flornes Yuen (CASS) As the end of the year approaches, now is a time to reflect on the major achievements of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) project in 2015, […]

Climbing to the Parkes focus cabin

December 20, 2015

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Our latest postdoc, Xinping Deng , puts on his protective gear and gets ready for the climb to the Parkes telescope focus cabin. Optical fibres have […]

Remembering Dan Harris

December 19, 2015

by Juan Madrid (CASS) Today we remember our colleague Daniel Harris from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who passed away on December 6. Dan was a student of John Bolton and […]

ATNF Colloquium – Stratospheric balloons at the frontier of space: The example of PILOT

December 18, 2015

by Jean-Philippe Bernard (Toulouse, France) Abstract. PILOT is a balloon-borne experiment dedicated to measuring the far-infrared polarized emission from dust in the diffuse ISM of our galaxy and nearby galaxies. […]

`Exotic pulsar’ theories confirmed with BETA

December 17, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) The latest paper to be published from ASKAP has used commissioning data to confirm theoretical predictions of an `exotic’ intermittent pulsar almost 6,000 light years […]

Supercomputing Resources Secured for ASKAP Early Science

December 16, 2015

by Lisa Harvey-Smith (CASS) The ASKAP early science project has been awarded 600,000 core hours on Magnus, the largest research supercomputer in the southern hemisphere. This time will be available […]

Bolton Symposium talk

December 15, 2015

by Juan Madrid (CASS) The M87 jet is experiencing extreme optical/UV variability and very high energy emission that were never anticipated. HST-1, a knot along the M87 jet located 1 […]

Before the storm at ASKAP

December 14, 2015

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The colours of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) come alive in anticipation of a pending storm. The white of the ASKAP antennas contrast beautifully with the […]

Visiting ASKAP

December 13, 2015

Photo by Connie Brem (CASS) Following the wonderful Murchison Astrofest , we returned to Boolardy Station and on the following day had a great tour of the ASKAP site and […]

Hovermap of the Parkes Dish

December 12, 2015

An unusual view of the CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes telescope. The above image shows one frame of a fly-through of the point cloud generated by Hovermap . For more details and […]